Georg Trakl Quotes

• I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

  Georg Trakl

  Spring, Silence, Woods

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• The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

  Georg Trakl

  Angel, Forgotten, Recalls

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• Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

  Georg Trakl

  Stars, Autumn, Years

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• Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

  Georg Trakl

  Eye, Skulls, Golden

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• Cold metal walks across my forehead,
  spiders search for my heart.
  It is a light that goes out in my mouth.

  Georg Trakl

  Heart, Light, Spiders

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• I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.

  Georg Trakl

  Dream, Home, Vision

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• Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

  Georg Trakl

  Stars, Air, Evil

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• The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

  Georg Trakl

  Heart, Eye, Night

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• Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

  Georg Trakl

  Water, Shadow, Silver

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• When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

  Georg Trakl

  White, Water, Childhood

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• The guilt of newborns is immense.

  Georg Trakl

  Guilt, Immense

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